Ding Dong we lost a great stateswomen - Margaret Thatcher has died

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EXCLUSIVE: Rehearsals begin for Maggie Thatcher's funeral:



From: twitter.com/Pundamentalism

[KentPhilip]

Lets not forget to sympathise with Satan and the other residents of Hell at this difficult time.

She's only been down there a few hours, and already she's shut down three furnaces and made redundant all the stokers..

[MarillionFan]

KUABT its a Full ceremonial funeral with military honours but no lying in state as she didn't want it.

I've just been woken up by a text saying The Iron Lady is dead. Taking a while to read the news.

[DodgyAgent]

That's you opinion the fact is we were Top 5 all throughout the 1970s, then the decline started. Can't be coincidence.

So we should not have voted Thatcher in and left things as they are? If you bear in mind that since Thatcher there are far more countries with growing free enterprise economie in the mix today than there were then.

If you think that the likes of BA, Austin Rover, the power industries et all would have been better off in the control of the state and that there should not have been trade union reform then argue it.

[Mich the Tester]

That's you opinion the fact is we were Top 5 all throughout the 1970s, then the decline started. Can't be coincidence.

Difference in ranking from 5 to 6 isn't important, because you can't ignore that some other people started to get pretty damn good at business and manufacturing in the last 30 odd years; Japan's industry went from strength to strength for many years and South Korea went from war-torn tulipheap to industrial powerhouse. So let's sell them stuff; they're loaded and a lot of them would love to buy Jags, Minis, Bentleys and so on.

[sasguru]

Let's cut the crap and get to the point.
If you want to know what Thatcher's legacy is: look at the country now.
She was the only post-war politician who made a real change (whether you liked it or not).
Subsequent Tory and Labour governments didn't change things much, Labour leaving the financial sector as it was, maybe spending a little more.
No government after her has made a strategy change like she did, rightly or wrongly.

My personal view is her legacy is mixed: there's not enough industry, but what there is is world class or it wouldn't exist.
Now if we can only get a strategic leader to increase the role of industry somehow, we'd be on the right track.

[original PM]

Complete bollux. One word for you: Germany.

I am talking low/unskilled manufacturing jobs - you know the ones which used to keep the working classes busy.

Now we still have manu jobs but you need to have a brian and an attention to detail.

[Mich the Tester]

Now we still have manu jobs but you need to have a brian and an attention to detail.

Here's a Brian;

[Pondlife]

I am talking low/unskilled manufacturing jobs - you know the ones which used to keep the working classes busy.

Now we still have manu jobs but you need to have a brian and an attention to detail.

and iron, Brian needs it to make irony stuff.

[Sysman]

She's only been down there a few hours, and already she's shut down three furnaces and made redundant all the stokers..

Doing her bit to counter global warming then.